Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Corker, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corker
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.11482, -8.80285
- SMR number
- GA114-057004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This cross is associated with a holy well (GA114-057003-) dedicated to St Coleman. It stands to its W of the well and it is believed to mark the spot where the saint was born (Long 1978, 12-13). On inspection in November 1982 the cross had been smashed but an inscription on its base indicated that it was erected in 1901. On re-inspection in July 1993 a Celtic cross had been erected on the original base stone.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 30 January 2020
References
Long, B. 1978 St. Colman's Well. Guaíre, no. 1. Privately published.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.